Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, at 2:15 a.m. last Thursday, they all gathered for a signing ceremony. The Americans signed nothing, but the Bosnian Serbs, with Milosevic as witness, put their signatures to the agreement to withdraw most of their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. They agreed to open the Bosnian capital's main roads and airport to unrestricted U.N. traffic. Milosevic kept one copy of the document, and Holbrooke took two copies with him to Zagreb to show to U.N. officials and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and then to Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic...
...already spoken to Norm Schwarzkopf earlier in the morning and told him I sensed we were nearing endgame. The prisoner catch was approaching 70,000. Saddam had ordered his forces to withdraw from Kuwait. The last major escape route was choked with fleeing soldiers and littered with the charred hulks of nearly 1,500 military and civilian vehicles. Reporters began referring to this road as the "Highway of Death...
Unfortunately, the agreement made no mention of a cease-fire, and as the Bosnian Serbs failed to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo, nato escalated its military campaign, doubling its target list and extending the scope of the air war across Bosnia. As poor weather frustrated bombing efforts and Serb resistance appeared to be holding firm, a nato official admitted, "It might take a longer campaign to inflict significant damage...This may be a question of lasting attrition, grinding them down rather than overwhelming them with a series of spectacular strikes in a couple of days...
...billboards and magazines-and air them on TV. If you're lucky, parents, the Catholic League and other religious groups will protest, especially over the video in which an offscreen male voice tells a girl standing alone that she's pretty and not to be nervous. Promise to withdraw the ads with an Orwellian statement about how your "positive message" was "misunderstood" and garner tons of free media exposure. Then watch your jeans, which most teens wouldn't have been caught dead in a few months ago, become black-market subversive overnight...
...fall of the U.N.'s ''safe areas" of Srebrenica and Zepa to the Serbs in July, Clinton faced a choice: either take military and diplomatic control away from the U.N. and the Europeans, or be forced to send thousands of American soldiers into harm's way to help withdraw U.N. troops. Clinton's priority in Bosnia has always been to avoid sending in soldiers while the war was going on, and he chose engagement...